CRPE's Robin Lake, Betheny Gross, and Paul Hill will be featured speakers at "The Urban Education Future?" - Lessons from New Orleans 10 Years after Hurricane Katrina conference, hosted by the Education
Robin Lake
Twitter: @RbnLake
Amazon Author Page: Robin Lake, Author
Robin Lake is director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) a non-partisan research and policy analysis organization developing transformative, evidence-based solutions for K–12 public education. Her research focuses on U.S. public school system reforms, including public school choice and charter schools; innovation and scale; portfolio management; and effective state and local public oversight practices.
Lake has authored numerous studies and provided expert testimony and technical assistance on charter schools, district-charter collaborations, and urban school reform. She is the editor of Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs and editor of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools. She co-authored, with Paul Hill, Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education. She has provided invited testimonies to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee as well as various state legislatures.
She presents regularly at conferences and summits around the United States, and has advised on charter school implementation in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Lake serves as a board member or advisor to various organizations, including the Journal of School Choice, the National Center on Special Education in Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and Education Next. She was named to the summer 2016 class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellows Program, designed to support exceptional leaders reimagining U.S. public schools.
Lake holds a BA in International Studies and an MPA in Education and Urban Policy from the University of Washington. She currently serves as Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, at the University of Washington Bothell.
11/2018
To Serve Every Student Well, Design for the Tails, Not the Mean
This essay explores how an education system built to meet the needs of “square pegs” could benefit all students.
11/2018
Rethinking the Traditional High School-College-Career Continuum
This essay explores the systemic changes needed to ensure student access to meaningful pathways to college prep and career training.
02/2018
Passing Notes: Learning from Efforts to Share Instructional Practices Across District-Charter Lines
This report examines recent efforts of districts and charter schools to share key instructional practices and offers recommendations for education leaders to move forward.
01/2018
The Slowdown in Bay Area Charter School Growth: Causes and Solutions
This report examines why charter school growth in the San Francisco Bay Area has slowed dramatically and offers solutions for cities nationwide to encourage the development of new high-quality schools.
11/2017
For Portfolio Supporters, Skeptics, and Would-Be Adopters: Some Thoughts From CRPE
This paper provides an honest assessment of the portfolio strategy’s strengths, weaknesses, and necessary evolution.
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Date: Jun 18 2015
Where: The Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans
Date: Jul 1 2014
Where: Mandalay Bay, Mandalay Bay IJ, Las Vegas, NV
Robin Lake will be presenting in this session on the role of charter schools in overhauling school districts.
Date: Apr 3 2014
Where: Philadelphia, PA
The AERA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of scholars in the field of education research. It is a showcase for ground-breaking, innovative studies in a diverse array of areas—from early education through higher education, from digital learning to second language literacy.
Date: Jan 23 2014
At January’s Washington Education Innovation Forum, Professor Ed Lazowska discussed how Washington’s primary and secondary schools are doing little to give students skills related to the jobs that are being created in their backyard, potential consequences if we do not change course, and how we might best expose our youth to STEM skills that are increasingly shaping our region’s economy and identity.
Washington Education Innovation Forum Presents: Bringing blended learning models to Washington State
Date: Nov 14 2013
Where: UW Medicine at South Lake Union
Our next Washington Education Innovation Forum will feature Jen Davis Wickens, Chief Regional Officer for Summit Public Schools, and Sarah Satinover, Summit’s Director of Growth.
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Apr 14 2019
CRPE research affiliate Aaron Hirsh's forthcoming report on homeschooling is referenced in this Seattle Times article on nontraditional students in Washington.
Mar 18 2019
Robin Lake is interviewed about Seattle's Downtown School in this piece by The 74.
Mar 8 2019
Robin Lake is quoted in this Chalkbeat article on the portfolio model.
Feb 20 2019
Robin Lake is interviewed by LA School Report about LAUSD's financial troubles.
Feb 1 2019
Robin Lake is quoted in this New York Times article on whether teachers should be rated according to their students' success on standardized exams.
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Mar 14 2019
Puerto Rico’s efforts to improve educational opportunities are rich, varied and locally driven.
Jan 29 2019
The school choice movement should evolve to provide new student pathways and better serve every student's individual needs.
Jan 2 2019
Serving every student requires a shift in mindset from a portfolio of schools to a portfolio of learning opportunities.
Dec 3 2018
I want to engage with real ideas and real people, writes Robin Lake, not labels and groupthink.
Nov 20 2018
It’s more essential than ever to measure student progress, writes Robin Lake, but our measures and methods must continue to evolve.
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